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Alan Wake: There may be something at Gamescom, there may not.. (see p.47)

Highlights:
They say it starts from where the last DLC left off.
They call it a spin-off and side thing a couple times. This is NOT Alan Wake 2.
They say Alan Wake is Twin Peaks, Stephen King. American Nightmare is Tarintino, Grindhouse. The acting is intentionally "hammy" at times, they say they're working within that Grindhousey theme and feel. They call it an episode of the Twilight Zone with Alan Wake's rules.
They discuss a "hub world". Since this is a sample from a full article, I bet they go into more detail before asking that question because it just is out there like we should know what they're talking about. They say its a little more open world.
They call the place Night Springs in the interview.
They say it includes enemies and weapons that wouldn't make sense/fit (not fit like they didnt have time, fit like themeatically fit) in Alan Wake.

Oh boy another game attempting to do "grindhouse".

How about we trying and get video game acting and writing to a higher level before deconstruction it.

Uselesswarrior on January 2012

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Mike Danger"Diane..."a place both wonderful and strangeRegistered Userregular

They say Alan Wake is Twin Peaks, Stephen King. American Nightmare is Tarintino, Grindhouse. The acting is intentionally "hammy" at times, they say they're working within that Grindhousey theme and feel. They call it an episode of the Twilight Zone with Alan Wake's rules.

well, playing through alan wake right now, and those 'night springs' things play on the TV all the time. they definitely are mocking twilight zone, and i could get down with playing an episode of twilight zone.
i wonder if the ones playing in this game have to do with the american nightmare

For max settings and high resolutions, a top of the line graphics card and CPU is needed.

Will the game be released on the Mac?

Unfortunately, the game will not be available for Mac users.

Will it support Windows XP?

Yes. We have finished our testing and are satisfied the game works well, assuming the users' systems are configured correctly (we detected some audio configuration problems during testing but nothing that can't be worked around easily).

Is Alan Wake going to use Games for Windows Live?

Games for Windows Live will not be used; we will be fully supporting the Steam platform.

Who is the publisher?

Alan Wake PC is a Remedy self-published title.

Is Remedy developing the PC game?

The PC version is being developed together with a small team from Remedy as well as a talented team at Finnish independent developer, Nitro Games, who have previous and recent experience of releasing games on Steam.

Will there be a demo version?

Unfortunately, there won’t be a demo version of Alan Wake PC.

What control options will there be?

The PC version will support keyboard and mouse (fully configurable) and the Xbox 360 controller.

What features will be available on Steam?

The game will run using Steamworks, allowing for syncing of settings and save games to the Steam Cloud platform. Steam achievements will also be featured in the game.

Will the DLC Episodes be included in the game?

Both The Signal and The Writer DLCs will be available on Steam and are included in all copies of the game.

Is this release developed from the former PC version that was showcased a few years ago?

No. Any early material evolved into what ended up shipping on the 360. This PC release will be derived from what was released on the 360.

How large is the Steam download for the game?

Around 7.5GB.

What graphical customisations will the player be able to make?

We are still finalising the options, but the players can naturally adjust resolution, run in full screen or windowed and change numerous graphics quality settings such as anti-aliasing, FXAA, shadow quality, draw distance and so on.

The players can also turn off the HUD if they wish. This was a feature many of our fans wanted for Alan Wake Xbox360.

How will the save game system work?

The save games will work as they did on Xbox360, with automatic checkpoints. We know some of our PC fans would love a “save anywhere” system, but unfortunately we can't easily change how the saves work as there are certain restrictions where you can save in the tech so adding a free save anywhere would likely expose a lot of new bugs.

What languages is the game localised to?

It is localised to same languages as Alan Wake Xbox360 with full voiceover and text localisations for English, German, Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. Text localisation (Subtitle support and menu translations) will be provided in Traditional Chinese, Korean, Polish and Russian.

Are you going to release the mod tools for Alan Wake PC?

Unfortunately Remedy is not planning to release the mod tools. The tools are a lot more complex than they were with the Max Payne games, and are based on many 3rd party commercial tools like Autodesk 3d studio max. Additionally they have been integrated to work with our Perforce asset repository and other internal services, and removing and re-implementing these features would be a lot of work.

Will Alan Wake PC support Stereoscopic 3D?

We have internally tested that the game works with NVISION 3D very nicely. It is fairly performance heavy though so a high end GPU such as the GeForce 580GTX and moderate graphics settings are recommended.

Remedy has not been able to test AMD HD3D (we spent some time trying), but AMD has access to the build and we are hoping they can confirm whether it works or not.

Important information in bold. Also, the FAQ describes the game as self-published, but (as of today) Remedy announced a boxed, retail version of the game being published by Nordic Games.

The Washington night was cold outside of Nemo's windor, but it's dark embrace could not penetrate the warm lights of his humble home. He had excitedly rushed to the forum to post the information he had just learned. He copied, he pasted, and he edited, until he produced a list of achievments for Alan Wake's American Nightmare.

Spoiler:

Escape! 10
Escape the Taken to the motel.

Rewrite 10
Rewrite reality for the first time.

Cool It 20
Make sure Dr. Meadows can take another look at the skies.

Happy Ending 25
Rewrite reality for the last time.

Glorious Dawn 10
Survive until dawn in any Arcade Mode level.

Poetry in Motion 20
Get a six-minute survivor streak and over 100,000 points in an Arcade level.

Enter the Nightmare 10
Unlock all of the Nightmare Arcade Mode levels.

Skill Beats Gun 10
Survive an Arcade level using nothing but the flashlight and handheld flares.

I am really happy to see enemy variety finally coming into Alan Wake. They completely missed the boat in the original by not having darkness infused wolves and deer*. Alan Wake I found had a hard time keeping me interested when the enemy variety wasn't really that great and you'd seen them all by barely 1/3 through the game.

*If you watched the live action thing they did for AW, you will see why Deer would have been a creepy addition.

Im just hoping the end will advance something - even if it is just Mr. Scratch.

With the way The Writer ended, I want to see a little bit of Alan working towards his idea. I'm not expecting any huge revelations in this, but it'd be nice to see Alan make a little more progress towards his goal.

It's...worth playing. It's not really a...unique experience, in any way, since it's literally aping Steven King and Twin Peaks at any and all times and SH2 the other 10% of the time it's not aping the aforementioned two things. It's just well executed. It doesn't start being Its Own Thing until The Writer and OH LOOK REMEDY CAN ACTUALLY WRITE GOOD ORIGINAL STUFF AND MAKE UNIQUE ENVIRONMENTS WHEN IT'S NOT MAKING "Silent Twin Peaks Hill: by Steven King: The Videogame"

oh also this game has super unique product placement maybe thats what captainnemo was talking about

Using that logic, any psychological thriller is a ripoff of Steven King. Or Alfred Hitchcock, depending on how old you are. There is nothing quite like Alan Wake in video games, and it's much more unique than most high-profile games.